When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.